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"Living in the past lane". Celebrating the early era of commercial network radio in the USA. A sampling of programs from the golden age of old time radio. (1930 - 1960)

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0000 CRIMESTOPPERS:__Tuesday: WHISTLER Whistler was the host and narrator of the tales, which focused on crime and fate.__Wednesday: GANG BUSTERS authentic police case histories__Thursday: ELLERY QUEEN a CBS detective drama that will keep you on the edge of your chair.__Friday: FRANK RACE a former OSS officer around the world from one scrape to another__Saturday: NERO WOLFE the galloping gourmet, was an armchair detective.__Sunday: SUSPENSE "radio's outstanding theater of thrills"__Monday: ROGER CORWIN Dramas0030 SAM SPADE created by writer Dashiell Hammett for The Maltese Falcon0100 CRIMESTOPPERS:__Mon: BIG STORY or BIGTOWN two newspaper based series in rotation__Tues: SAINT swashbuckling, devil-may-care Robin Hood type who attempts to help people__Weds: JOHNNY DOLLAR America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator__Thurs: Mr and Mrs North American amateur detectives__Fri Sat: (Various)__Sun: Frontier Town Chad Remington's quest to bring his father's killer to justice0130 SITUATION COMEDIES:__Mon: The MARRIAGE Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. Based on their earlier Broadway play, The Fourposter__Tues: OZZIE AND HARRIET family situation comedy.__Weds: HALLS OF IVY Ronald Colman as William Todhunter Hall, the president of small, Midwestern Ivy College__Thurs: PHIL HARRIS SHOW starring real life couple Alice Faye and Phil Harris__Fri: FATHER KNOWS BEST American sitcom starring Robert Young__Sat: Variety Comedy Series__Sun: ALAN YOUNG SHOW Alan being led into situations well over his head0200 LUX RADIO THEATER a classic radio anthology series,0300 The LONE RANGER fictional masked former Texas Ranger who fought outlaws in the American Old West0330 HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL Paladin, a gentleman-turned-gunfighter0400 FORT LARAMIE life at old Fort Laramie during the 19th Century0430 TALES OF TEXAS RANGERS Western police procedural drama0500 FRONTIER GENTLEMAN Wild West through the eyes of a British correspondent from the London Times0530 GUNSMOKE Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West.0600 SIX SHOOTER Britt Ponset, a drifting cowboy in the final years of the wild west.0630 The LONE RANGER Masked rider bringing justice to the west0700 FRONTIER PLAYHOUSE (Various western dramas)0730 INNER SANCTUM stories of mystery, terror and suspense0800 CBS MYSTERY THEATER world of the macabre0845 CHALLENGE OF THE YUKON adventure show with a dog as the hero.0900 GREEN HORNET Britt Reid, daring young publisher, matches wits with the Underworld0930 CLYDE BEATTY finds new and more extravagant beasts for his circus performances1000 BARRIE CRAIG Craig had a laid-back personality, somewhat cutting against the popular hard-boiled detective stereotype.1030 BOSTON BLACKIE "enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend."1100 MR DISTRICT ATTORNEY The series focused on a crusading D.A....Paul Garrett.1130 ESCAPE DRAMAS radio's leading anthology series of high-adventure radio dramas1200 DRAGNET enacting the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners.1230 DRAMAS anthology series collection.1300 DRAMAS more series.1330 CAVALCADE OF AMERICA anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented musicals1400 OTR DRAMA THEATER (Various)1500 DR CHRISTIAN Small town physician solves problems with common sense and scientific training.1530 MIKE SHAYNE a fictional private detective character created during the late 1930s by writer Brett Halliday1600 PHILO VANCE a stylish, even foppish dandy; a New York bon vivant possessing a highly intellectual bent1630 DANGEROUS ASSIGNMENT US special agent Steve Mitchell travels to exotic locales all over the world, where he would encounter adventure and international intrigue1700 THIS is your FBI... detailing real life cases from their files rotating with other FBI shows1730 PHILIP MARLOWE a wisecracking, hard-drinking, tough private eye1800 BOB and RAY an American comedy duo whose career spanned five decades.1830 OTR MEMORIES 4 U Vintage Radio Documentaries1900 The Rest Of The Story and "audioRAC" features1930 ALL STAR WESTERN THEATER Western-style entertainment with chuck wagon sized doses of fine music, broad humor and guest appearances by the best of the West.2000 HALLMARK PLAYHOUSE radio drama at the highest level. And they certainly delivered! Using scripts or stories that were for the most part already known to the public, they got the best actors too2030 HOLLYWOOD THEATER top screen personality each week in original stories of mystery and adventure2100 NBC THEATER NBC University Theater was a radio series directed by Homer Heck that presented adaptations of classic novels.2230 DRAGNET His name was Friday he was a cop...2300 CRIMESTOPPERS:__Mon: Various OTR cops series__Tues: MR KEEN a tracer of lost persons__Weds: NIGHTBEAT a reporter covers the night beat for the Chicago Star, encountering criminals and troubled souls.__Thurs: SHADOW "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!"__Fri: BOX 13 the escapades of newspaperman-turned-mystery novelist Dan Holiday, played by film star Alan Ladd.__Sat/Sun: Various2330 RICHARD DIAMOND a wisecracking, former police officer turned private detective.

Ranger Bill is a Christian radio program from the 1950s, produced by Moody Radio. With over 200 episodes produced, Ranger Bill stars Miron Canaday as the title character and Stumpy Jenkins and Ed Ronne, Sr as Grey Wolf.

Ranger Bill, Warrior of the Woodland, struggling against extreme odds, traveling dangerous trails, fighting the many enemies of nature. This is the job of the guardian of the forest, Ranger Bill. Pouring rain, freezing cold, blistering heat, snows, floods, bears, rattlesnakes, mountain lions. Yes, all this in exchange for the satisfaction and pride of a job well done." That was the opening of Ranger Bill, a Christian radio adventure serial produced under the auspices of the Moody Broadcasting Network and the Moody Bible Institute.

There were 206 episodes of Ranger Bill, which ran from 1950 to 1954 in a 15-minute format on WMBI in Chicago, and in syndication as a 30-minute show from 1954 to 1962.
The series followed the adventures of Park Ranger Bill Jefferson. Miron Canaday starred as Bill, the chief forest ranger in the small Rocky Mountain town of Knotty Pine, where the former US Marine lived with his mother. Ranger Bill was your standard radio hero, a paragon of fitness and virtue who could resolve nearly any situation. Ranger Bill and his friends were faced with many situations to solve over the years, from the mundane, like finding lost kids or investigating the problems racing boats were causing on the lake, to the fantastic, including several elephant attacks, spacemen apparently coming from a meteor and trying to find a lost treasure in the Amazon, all the while stressing positive Christian values for young people.

Friends that figured prominently in Bill's adventures included Stumpy Jenkins, an eagle-eyed ranger known for his marksmanship and often called "the Old Timer"; Henry Scott, Bill's teenage ward, was learning the ways of the woods by helping out Bill in the park, along with young ranger Ralph Carpenter; and Gray Wolf, a ranger and a member of the Dakota tribe. Gray Wolf spoke in the typical broken English for the era and genre, but knew how to use the traditional ways of his people and modern forest management methods to help Bill protect the woods. The first episode introduced Bill's boss, Colonel Anders, who sent Bill and Henry to blow up the Pine Ridge Dam in order to stop a forest fire threatening the Pendleton Valley.

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